Undercounting mortality in the Covid-19 pandemic
Photo by Edwin Hooper on UnsplashThis comment concerns the most common reasons mortality has been…
B. Piedad UrdinolaJuly 10, 2020
Nightingale and the coronavirus pandemic: disease prevention, parallels and principles
An imaginary drawing of Florence Nightingale nursing in Scutari, by her sister Parthenope. Photographed at…
How reliable is your wearable heart-rate monitor?
Fitbit, Garmin and other consumer heart-rate monitors are increasingly being used in clinical trials. The…
TimJune 22, 2018
HMS Terror wreck found – but what happened to her doomed crew? Here’s the science
HMS Terror. Engraving by George Back. via Wikimedia Commons It remains one of history’s best-known…
Keith MillarSeptember 28, 2016
Ask a statistician: Why can we not predict earthquakes?
Hundreds of people have been killed since the start of the year as a result…
Brian TarranAugust 25, 2016
Voodoo polls are bad news: here’s how to spot and stop them
"Over a third of students ‘no longer wish to study medicine’ amid the junior doctors’…
Robert FordJanuary 20, 2016
Google wants to extend your life
Can statistics save your life? Well, Google certainly thinks it can. Moreover, the company has…
Carlos Alberto Gómez GrajalesSeptember 30, 2013
Can you name a female statistician?
We read about statistics every day, be it the predicted winner of a football league,…
Linda WijlaarsMarch 5, 2013
